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(No Model.)

G. B. FRENCH.

PILLOW SRAM HOLDER.

No. 265,054. i Patented Sept. 26, 1882.

MME M UNITED STATES PATENT (NEIGE.

GILBERT B. FRENCH, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

PlLiLow-SHAM HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.V 265,054, dated September 26, 1882.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GILBERT B. FEENoH, of Lynn, in thecounty of Essex and Gommonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pillow-Sham Holders, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention has reference to a class ot' devices for keeping pillow covers or shams in a proper slantin g position at the head of the bed during the day, and for allowing them toV be turned up and'out'of the Way at night. The devices'now in use for, this purpose employ a rectangular fra-me for supporting and spreadingthe shams, which frame is pivoted in brackets attached to the head-board, so as to turn about one ot its sides as an axis, and may be turned down over the place occupied by the pillows in the day-time and up against the 4head-board in the night-time; and the object of this my new invention isto provide means wherebyit shall be held in proper slanting position during the day, and also to prevent it from falling down when turned up at night.

To this end my invention consistsin the hereinafter-described.method of constructing and balancing the supportingframe, and also in providing the frame with a pin or clutch arranged to engage in a suitable manner with the brackets which support the frame, so as lo hold the form inaproperslanting position when turned down.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the head-board of a hedstead with my invention applied thereto, and has t-he frame turned up. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofthe bed with my invention applied thereto, and shows the frame with the shams thereon, and turned down asit appears in the day-time. Fig. 3 shows the mechanism for holding the frame in position when turned down.

The'barrA has its ends turned down or provided with pintles to lit and work in suitable eyes made in the brackets B B, which brackets are attached to the head-board C of the bedstead to uphold the bar A thus journaled therein.

Connected wit-h thcybar A is a rectangular frame, E, preferably made ot' wire and united .to the bar, so as to be turned thereby.. Sut

able crosspieces may be added to the frame, if desired, to give support in the center. The barA will extend from one bed-post to the other, or nearly so, and the width of the frame E will be practically equal to the length of the bar A, and will therefore be as wide as the headboard itself. The length lot' the frame Willbe about half that of the sham or shams which it is intended to hold.

When the shams are fastened to frame in the usual way, and the frame is turned up, the shams will fold over the edge of the frame and hang down so as to conceal it.

In order to prevent the frame from falling down when turned up at night I make use of a Weight, F, which is preferably1 attached to a small offset from the bar A, and in such man.- ner that when the frame is turmd down the line ot gravitation ot the weight F passes the axis ot' rotation of the frame-that is, the bar A. Obviously when the frame is turned up the gravity of the weight F is exerted on thc back side ot' the bar A, and thereby holds the frame 'back against the head-board; but when the frame is turned completely down over the place occupied by the pillows the weight is carried round with the bar A till its line of gravity is on the front side of the bar A, whereupon it acts to hold thelranie down in this position. By weighting the frame in this manner I obviate the necessity of springs or latches for holding up the frame, the same being objectionable because they mar the tinish of the bedstead.

On the bracket B is a small boss, 2, and in the end ot' the bar A is a pin, 3, which pin is ixed in the bar, in reference to the frame E, so that when the frame is turned down 'this pin 3 comes into engagement with the said boss on the bracket and prevents any further turning of the bar A. The frameE is thus held suspended at the desired angle of inclination without coming in contact with the bedding to crumple the shams.

In the devices heretofore constructed the bar A is allowed to form one side ofthe rectangular frame for supporting the shams. This requires the sham to be attached directly to the bar, and as the frame is turned up the edge ot' the sham is crowded against the bedstcad, and

so gets crumpled and soiled. To obviete this I set the` bar A out from the head-board and allow the frame E to reach back of the bar.

The sham is then attached directly to the frame 5 and moves with the frame round the bar A.

I claim--l 1. In a pillow-sham holder, the weight F, combined with the frame E and pivoted rockershaft A, whereby theframe is held back against 1o the head-board when turned up, substantially as set forth.

2. In a pillow-sham holder, the combination, with the head-board or corner-posts of a bedstead, of the brackets B, the rock-shaft A, and

r 5 the pillow-sham frame attached to the rockshaft and extending back of the same, as described.

3. In a pillow-sham holder, the combination, with the `bracket B, frame E, and rocker-shaft A, of the stud-pin 3,1iXed on the shaft and 2o adapted to vengage with a suitable boss in the bracket to stop the motion of the shaft, and thereby hold the frame suspended, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this 25 specification in presence of two Witnesses.

GILBERT B. FRENCH. Witnesses: v

H. A. THURLOW, C. B. TUTTLE. 

